July is the seventh month of the year (between June and August) in the Julian and Gregorian Calendars and one of seven months with the length of 31 days. It was named by the Roman Senate in honor of the Roman general, Julius Caesar, it being the month of his birth. Prior to that, it was called Quintilis. It is, on average, the warmest month in most of the Northern hemisphere (where it is the second month of summer) and the coldest month in much of the Southern hemisphere (where it is the second month of winter). The second half of the year commences in July. In the Southern hemisphere, July is the seasonal equivalent of January in the Northern hemisphere.
July symbols: The birthstone of July is the ruby, which symbolizes contentment. Its birth flowers are the Larkspur or the Water Lily. The zodiac signs for the month of July are Cancer (until July 22) and Leo (July 23 onwards).
Historical Events for July, 1892
Day of Week 4th » Western Samoa changes the International Date Line, so that year it had 367 days, with two occurrences of Monday, July 4.
Day of Week 6th » Dadabhai Naoroji is elected as the first Indian British House of Commons or Member of Parliament in Britain.
6th » Three thousand eight hundred strike action e.g striking steelworkers engage in a day-long battle with Pinkerton National Detective Agency or Pinkerton agents during the Homestead Strike, leaving ten dead and dozens wounded.
Day of Week 7th » Katipunan: the Revolutionary Philippine Brotherhood is established, contributing to the fall of the Spanish Empire in Asia.
Famous Birthdays on July in 1892
1st » James M. Cain, American author and journalist (d. 1977)
6th » Will James (artist) or Will James, American author and illustrator (d. 1942)
8th » Richard Aldington, English author and poet (d. 1962)
8th » Pavel Korin, Russian painter (d. 1967)
11th » Thomas Mitchell (actor) called Thomas Mitchell, American actor, singer, and screenwriter (d. 1962)
12th » Bruno Schulz, Ukrainian-Polish author and painter (d. 1942)
13th » Léo-Pol Morin, Canadian pianist, composer, and educator (d. 1941)
13th » Jonni Myyrä, Finnish javelin thrower (d. 1955)
13th » Kesarbai Kerkar, Indian singer (d. 1977)
15th » Walter Benjamin, German philosopher and critic (d. 1940)
18th » Arthur Friedenreich, Brazilian footballer (d. 1969)
19th » Dick Irvin, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 1957)
22nd » Jack MacBryan, English cricketer and field hockey player (d. 1983)
22nd » Hjalmar Väre, Finnish cyclist (d. 1952)
23rd » Haile Selassie I, Ethiopian emperor (d. 1975)
26th » Sad Sam Jones, American baseball player and manager (d. 1966)
28th » K. Kanagaratnam, Sri Lankan civil servant and politician (d. 1952)
29th » William Powell, American actor and singer (d. 1984)
31st » Herbert W. Armstrong, American evangelist and publisher, founded Worldwide Church of God (d. 1986)
31st » Joseph Charbonneau, Canadian archbishop (d. 1959)
Famous Deaths for July 1892
12th » Alexander Cartwright, American firefighter, invented baseball (b. 1820)
18th » Thomas Cook, English travel agent, founded the Thomas Cook Group (b. 1808)